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by ig1 12y ago
Did you look at the pricing ? - it's 306 euros with stopover versus 190 euros direct Barcelona to London (for one day return on day of startup school). There are certainly other viable candidates to host such an event such as Paris and
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Ryanair don't fly to Frankfurt from Paris or Barcelona, they only serve a handful of major city routes (primarily London and Rome). And at the point where you flying into a different city it's no longer an "easy-to-get-to&quo
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by ig1 12y ago
Frankfurt is certainly a commercial/financial hub, but it's much more expensive to get to from say Paris or Barcelona because those routes aren't served by the budget airlines as it's not a tourist destination. But the B
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by ig1 12y ago
Israel is certainly bigger than Berlin. It's not clear which is bigger between the UK and Israel as it depends which metric you use.
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There's a significant difference with being a visitor to a foreign country (where you can just wing it) and running a several hundred person event. Something getting lost in miscommunication can easily become a big deal. (in practice y
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by ig1 12y ago
I imagine the factors that came into play: 1) It's an major English speaking city with a culture many of the YC partners are comfortable with. Running an event in a country with a foreign language and culture is hard . 2) It's we
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by ig1 12y ago
It's not uncommon for a VC to want to spend at least some time with the wider team, although it's unlikely they'd do any kind of background check on non-key employees. That said there's some kinds of startups where inves
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European Tech Startups Pay Off(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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The US government don't seem to realize that this could equally well be used against them, for example another country where MS operates could file a warrant requiring that Microsoft handover US government files.
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by ig1 12y ago
You should read jedc's mba thesis on the topic: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19982837/Copying-Y-Combinator
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by ig1 12y ago
Yes and they get a salary for this like they would at any other company. If they take on a below market salary and or additional risk exposure in join a startup they should negotiate a package (be it options or otherwise) that adjusts for t
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Founders hold the majority of the stock because they shoulder the majority of the risk in the early days, employees are largely reward through their salary rather than their stock option. That said most employees make out reasonably through
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In a respected academic journal in the field.
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by ig1 12y ago
If people are curious as to why VCs are interested in open-source businesses: http://indexventures.com/news-room/blog/a-perfect-storm-now-...
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by ig1 12y ago
fyi. Show HN's have historically followed the pattern of being self-posts describing the product/background with links posted in the comments. (based on what I recall seeing rather than crunching the data)
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by ig1 12y ago
Presumably your cofounder was inspired by the appstore logo which is the letter A made from a pencil & ruler......
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by ig1 12y ago
Who's the accelerator ? (feel free to ping me by email if you prefer)
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by ig1 12y ago
I believe most blind programmers use braille displays, because much programming is command line rather than UI based it's probably easier than many other occupations.
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by ig1 12y ago
Earliest recorded usage of the term "hacker" in a technology context: ---- 1963 The Tech (MIT student newspaper) 20 Nov. 1 Many telephone services have been curtailed because of so-called hackers, according to Prof. Carlton Tucker
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by ig1 12y ago
I work at a venture capital fund so I've seen internal salary data from a number of tech startups as well as from recruiters in the space. I also used to run a developer recruitment startup which gave me access to a lot of internal dat
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by ig1 12y ago
I suggest looking at post-series B venture funded startups they're the ones who have enough money and the need for senior engineers. That's around the level I'd expect a VP eng with domain experience (i.e scaling a high-growt
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by ig1 12y ago
Plenty of (funded) startups hire senior developers in 60-120k range.
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The average full-time salary in London is 34k right and that 60k would put you in the top decile in the country. Property prices are indeed high in London, but as a software developer you're earning significantly more than the average
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by ig1 12y ago
Having built apps with apps with phonegap my advice is don't. Pick a single platform and build natively unless you have a very very good reason you have to be cross-platform.
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Because last mile bandwidth has significantly different economics to data centre and interchange bandwidth economics.
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Both Amazon and Etsy are ecommerce players that attract plenty of good developers.
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by ig1 12y ago
I considered that approach but found the JSON returned by some third-party apis contained characters in keys (dashes, spaces, etc) which have special meanings in python so can't be used natively.
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The code in the library is actually pretty simple, but deals with many practical edge-cases (stepping into an array, handling missing values gracefully, etc.) that the above code doesn't. My longer term intention is adding other useful
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by ig1 12y ago
I had this exact problem in Python and wanted to be able to use dot-notation (i.e "book.metadata.title") to query the structure (like MongoDB, etc do) so built my own library for doing it: https://github.com/imrang
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by ig1 12y ago
It's worth noting that it's a national holiday in the UK today so many of the local HN regulars are likely to miss this announcement so it might be worth making another one at some point prior to the deadline.

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